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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

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As I understand it it's their Forward Operating Bases you invade, not their Mother Base but the rest is spot on.

You invade and steal as much of their shit as you can and if you escape it's yours.

The 30min online vid up thread details it all; skip to the last 15mins or so to see an invasion in action. It looks AWESOME.

Holy hell, that looks incredible! So much depth there, and I love the way it's all integrated into your SP campaign. Getting some strong Pandora Tomorrow asymmetrical PvP vibes from that.

Here's the video again:

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My favourite MGS related story goes back to MGS3... I finished it shortly after release and my mate took his time going through it but didn't want to talk about anything until he was done. So, he finished it and we had a great in depth conversation about the story, characters, boss fights, etc. The highlight though was when I went on to talk about the intricacies of the CQC system and how you could pull off some amazing techniques once you got into it. He was very confused. Turns out he hadn't known there was a CQC system in place and spent the entire time punch, punch, kicking his way through the game :lol:

In fact, this isn't just me favourite MGS related story, it is my favourite gaming related story of all time!

Anyway, played to death and love every version of MGS so extremely hyped for this. Working away from home a few days next week but when I get back on Thursday I am doing a 48 hour session on it non-stop. If the wife wants to interact I will tell her she has to tune into the correct Code frequency otherwise she doesn't exist.

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My favourite MGS related story goes back to MGS3... I finished it shortly after release and my mate took his time going through it but didn't want to talk about anything until he was done. So, he finished it and we had a great in depth conversation about the story, characters, boss fights, etc. The highlight though was when I went on to talk about the intricacies of the CQC system and how you could pull off some amazing techniques once you got into it. He was very confused. Turns out he hadn't known there was a CQC system in place and spent the entire time punch, punch, kicking his way through the game :lol:

In fact, this isn't just me favourite MGS related story, it is my favourite gaming related story of all time!

Anyway, played to death and love every version of MGS so extremely hyped for this. Working away from home a few days next week but when I get back on Thursday I am doing a 48 hour session on it non-stop. If the wife wants to interact I will tell her she has to tune into the correct Code frequency otherwise she doesn't exist.

I'm in the same boat as him! I never worked out the CQC system either. Still finished it mind.

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MardiganX

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Snake Eater had some really great tricks buried in about the CQC system and it has developed beautifully through MGS4 and Ground Zeroes. Taking it to the next level and having the world entirely open to you with all the additional equipment and weapons in Phantom Pain is just incredible.

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You don't have to leave SP; you can automate your defences and leave them to defend the FOB.

That carries it's own risk of course, if your troops and defences are shit.

Online doesn't launch until Oct though, doesn't it? Gives almost everyone here time to complete the single player campaign I'd have thought.

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How regular will these invasions be, I can see it getting pretty tedious. I might not bother with FOB's if i'm constantly being dragged out of SP missions.

Sounds like you only establish FOBs if you want to partake in multiplayer.

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It does sound odd that you have to repeat parts of the story before you are allowed the ending, no matter how enjoyable it is.

Well, indeed. Sounds too much like the 'Now eat your greens,' approach that Arkham Knight had to Riddler trophies. I understand a developer wanting to reward those who play and replay with a more patient and methodical mindset, but such rewards should never be vital to the game.

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If I haven't played an MGS since 2 ( which is nearly fifteen years ago now, haha ), how badly lost will I be with this?

I did play a little bit of one of the PSP games, Portable Ops or Peacewalker but didn't get very far before becoming distracted.

EDIT

Clarifying my question a bit, does this follow on directly from 4 or is it standalone / from a different time period?

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It's set in the 1980s, before any of the games Snake is in have happened, and is the canonical sequel to Peace Walker, which was itself the canonical sequel to MGS3. I don't think you particularly need to know much beyond the fact that in Peace Walker, Big Boss had successfully started his mercenary operation out of an oil rig complex nicknamed Mother Base and built a Metal Gear. In Ground Zeroes Mother Base is destroyed, the Metal Gear lost at the bottom of the ocean, and Big Boss wound up in a coma.

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It follows on from 3 and Peace Walker only, everything else is after.

For anyone scares off watching the trailer for spoilers - it spoils the titular Metal Gear of this entry, nothing more.

And if I haven't played either of those, how much of a disadvantage will I be at?

EDIT

Thanks Spacehost, so Ground Zero is a direct prequel to this? I thought it was just a big tech demo thingy, rather than a story, I shall download it from PS Plus & give it a go.

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For anyone scares off watching the trailer for spoilers - it spoils the titular Metal Gear of this entry, nothing more.

There's a fairly awesome walking-at-the-camera bit I'd rather have seen in-context for myself in the game TBH. And anyway, seeing how utterly mental the new MG is in this makes me think it'd be more exciting to experience it coming in blind.

And if I haven't played either of those, how much of a disadvantage will I be at?

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Thanks Spacehost, so Ground Zero is a direct prequel to this? I thought it was just a big tech demo thingy, rather than a story, I shall download it from PS Plus & give it a go.

I don't think you need to play it to know what's going on in TPP, but it'd probably help. Plus you get to spend a bit of time getting your head around the controls.

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Xbox card from Play Asia?

Yes.

Can you point me in the right direction to a guide on how to buy from other regions stores please

Buy gift card here -

http://www.play-asia.com/digital_codes/xbox_live/14/711z5?affiliate_id=1697715

Change Xbox region to Hong Kong, enter the gift card code, buy MGSV.

"One of the best games ever" and people don't want to pay the asking price.

This forum, seriously.

That is the asking price in Hong Kong.

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MardiganX

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I didn't even know what was going on in GZ so I've no fucking chance at understanding this :lol:

As far as I was concerned a man called Snake rescued two kids from a prison camp then an oil rig blew up.

I've spent a lot of time with all the games and have a decent grasp of the full mythos behind it all, but that description of Ground Zeroes is absolutely brilliant and true. There are about 4 layers of context around the events of Ground Zeroes but you cant argue with that description :lol:

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"One of the best games ever" and people don't want to pay the asking price.

This forum, seriously.

That's a bit unfair.

Some folks are just wondering whose 'asking price' is cheapest. It isn't as if someone somewhere is getting ripped off.

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